EP4211249A1 - Peptides pulvérisables de pénétration cellulaire pour l'administration de substances dans des plantes - Google Patents

Peptides pulvérisables de pénétration cellulaire pour l'administration de substances dans des plantes

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EP4211249A1
EP4211249A1 EP21773550.5A EP21773550A EP4211249A1 EP 4211249 A1 EP4211249 A1 EP 4211249A1 EP 21773550 A EP21773550 A EP 21773550A EP 4211249 A1 EP4211249 A1 EP 4211249A1
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Yuki Matsuba
Vinitha CARDOZA
Baochun Li
Marianela RODRIGUEZ
Joerg Bauer
Keiji Numata
Jordan Corinne THERIOT
Chonprakun THAGUN
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  • the present disclosure relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns an improved method for delivering nucleic acids into plants.
  • Yield is normally defined as the measurable produce of economic value from a crop. This may be defined in terms of quantity and/or quality. Yield is directly dependent on several factors, for example, the number and size of the organs, plant architecture (for example, the number of branches), seed production, leaf senescence and more. Root development, nutrient uptake, stress tolerance and early vigour may also be important factors in determining yield. Optimizing the above-mentioned factors may therefore contribute to increasing crop yield. A further important trait is that of improved stress tolerance. Abiotic stress is a primary cause of crop loss worldwide, reducing average yields for most major crop plants by more than 50% (Wang et al., Planta 218, 1-14, 2003).
  • Abiotic stresses may be caused by drought, salinity, extremes of temperature, chemical toxicity and oxidative stress.
  • Biotic stresses are typically those stresses caused by pathogens (such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi), weeds, nematodes and insects, or other animals, which may result in negative effects on plant growth.
  • pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi
  • weeds e.g., weeds, nematodes and insects, or other animals
  • the ability to improve plant tolerance to abiotic or biotic stress would be of great economic advantage to farmers worldwide and would allow for the cultivation of crops during adverse conditions and in territories where cultivation of crops may not otherwise be possible.
  • RNAi nucleic acids
  • small molecules e.g. salicylic acid
  • Plants with enhanced agronomic benefits may also be generated using genome editing, improving regeneration capacity, , ribonucleoparticle binding, protein inactivation or intracellular transport regulation.
  • the plant cells are of a specific type (e.g. regenerating plant cells, meristematic cells, root cells etc.).
  • Current technologies have limitations, e.g. for the delivery of nucleic acids into plant cells.
  • Two technologies are commonly used for the delivery of nucleic acids into plant cells, biolistics and Agrobacterium.
  • the biolistics approach often suffers from low success rates, high damage of cells, and complex integration of transgenes and requires considerable experimental time and effort.
  • Agrobacterium-mediated delivery can be really efficient, but its success is often genotype-dependent.
  • One important point to make here is the Agrobacterium-mediated in planta transient transgene expression. It is a very effective system and widely used for assaying various kinds of gene expression systems and for protein productions, but it is only effectively working on one plant species, which is Nicotiana benthamiana.
  • CPPs Cell Penetrating Peptides
  • EP2974595 describes compositions that comprise chelators and surfactants, and a two-step method for applying such compositions.
  • US 2018/0235210 discloses methods for targeting the bacterial phytopathogen Erwinia amylovora and provides compositions that include nonionic surfactants or ionic surfactants such as cationic or anionic surfactants.
  • WO2017025967 provides methods and compositions for gene silencing by delivering a nucleic acid active in RNA pathways of plant cells; the compositions used therefore contain cell wall degrading enzymes (such as cellulases, hemicellulases, lignin-modifying enzymes, cinnamoyl ester hydrolases and pectindegrading enzymes, alone or in combination) and a nucleic acid condensing agent (such as protamine, spermidine3+, spermine4+, hexamine cobalt, polycationic peptides such as polylysine and polyarginine, histones HI and H5 and polymers such as PEG, polyaspartate and poly glutamate).
  • cell wall degrading enzymes such as cellulases, hemicellulases, lignin-modifying enzymes, cinnamoyl ester hydrolases and pectindegrading enzymes, alone or in combination
  • W02015/200539 discloses compositions that must contain an osmolyte and WO2015/812530 describes a method for delivering dsRNA into a plant cell using a composition supplemented with a surfactant, salt, humectant, or a chelating agent.
  • the method for in planta delivery comprises a drying step followed by treating the leaves with sandpaper to deliver dsRNA into the cells.
  • W02016/179180 describes compositions for protecting bees from pests like Varroa, which compositions comprise an anti-parasitic, anti-pest or insecticidal nucleic acid molecule, and an excipient selected from protein, pollen, carbohydrate, polymer, liquid solvent, sugar syrup, sugar solid, and semi-solid feed.
  • additives like chelators, surfactants, humectants or osmolytes may exert a negative influence on the stability or activity of the compound of interest that must be introduced into a plant cell.
  • PCT/EP2019/0866682 discloses a complex comprising a CPP and a polycation sequence, along with a second component comprising a ribonucleic acid or polynucleotide wherein the peptide is a cyclic peptide comprising at least two cysteine residues.
  • the uptake of the complex is only shown for callus tissue derived from a plant.
  • CPPs Cell Penetrating Peptides
  • the inventors have surprisingly found that a solution of CPPs, complexed with nucleic acids, can be applied to a plant surface by way of spraying or similar technique and that such complex can efficiently enter the plant cell.
  • Such techniques can be used in methods like genome editing, targeted mutagenesis, transient regulation by peptides or proteins, transient regulation by RNAi and for intra- and intercellular transport of proteins/peptides in plants.
  • the non-invasive nature of spraying makes the method ideal for delivery without damage to the plant tissue.
  • the inventors have surprisingly found that the nucleic acid-CPP complex to be introduced into a plant cell of a plant, can simply be dissolved in water and when subsequently sprayed on a plant surface, is efficiently taken up by a plant cell.
  • CPPs Cell-penetrating peptides
  • FEBS Lett. 2013 587:1693-1702 They have the capacity to cross cellular membranes without the need of recognition by specific receptors.
  • three types can be distinguished: natural occurring peptides, fusion of different natural occurring peptides and synthetic peptides.
  • CPPs are coupled to cargo molecules through covalent conjugation, forming CPP-cargo complexes.
  • DNA, RNA, nanomaterials and proteins such as antibodies were reported as cargo molecules.
  • the primary cell wall of land plants is composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectin. Additionally, polymers such as lignin, suberin or cutin are anchored to or embedded in plant cell walls. Structural proteins (1-5%) are found in most plant cell walls; they are classified as hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGP), arabinogalactan proteins (AGP), glycine-rich proteins (GRPs), and proline-rich proteins (PRPs).
  • HRGP hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins
  • AGP arabinogalactan proteins
  • GRPs glycine-rich proteins
  • PRPs proline-rich proteins
  • the cell wall surrounds the plasma membrane of plant cells and provides tensile strength and protection against mechanical and osmotic stress. It also allows cells to develop turgor pressure. Plant cells also have vacuoles and chloroplasts, both of which help regulate how plant cells handle water and storage of other molecules.
  • biochemical composition of plant cells and plasma membranes changes during the plant
  • CPPs have been found to be trapped within the cell wall due to its ionic interaction with the negatively charged cell wall components (Mizuno et al. Cellular internalization of arginine-rich peptides into tobacco suspension cells: a structure-activity relationship study. J Pept Sci. 2009; 15(4):259-63. 10.1002/psc.l07). Hence, CPPs for plant system must be able to penetrate the cell membrane without being absorbed onto the negatively charged cell wall. There are limited reports reporting the use of CPP for cargo (protein) delivery into plant cells, but the few reported studies were only at cellular assay level. To date, there have been limited or no reports on cargo (protein) delivery system in intact plants.
  • the peptide-mediated delivery strategy mainly involves the formation of a peptide-fusion protein, which is achieved by the formation of carrier peptide and protein of interest by chemical cross-linking.
  • these strategies tend to be labor-intensive, time-consuming, and could lead to the loss of biological activity of some of the protein cargoes.
  • the negatively charged cargo preferentially interacts with the polycationic peptide through ionic interactions, whereas the CPP interacts with fewer cargo molecules and is preferentially present on the surface of peptide-cargo complexes.
  • CPPs HIV Tat and many other CPPs have been identified and utilized as molecular transporters in plant cells. Below, some examples of CPP are described in more detail. While specific examples of CPPs are provided herein, the skilled person would recognize that CPPs can be selected based on criteria determined by the physicochemical properties necessary for CPPs to cross membranes. A combination of hydrophobicity, high net positive charge and the R-groups of arginine and lysine have been shown to confer membrane transduction properties to CPPs.
  • BP100 (KKLFKKILKYL - SEQ ID NO: 7) is an amphiphilic peptide and has CPP function.
  • KH9 KHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKH - SEQ. ID NO:10), R9 (RRRRRRRRR - SEQ. ID NO: 8), and D-R9 (rrrrrrrr, D-form of R9 - SEQ ID NO:9) are peptides containing both CPP and cationic biomolecule binding functions.
  • BP100(KH)9 (KKLFKKILKYLKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKH - SEQ ID NO: 11) and BP100CH7 (KKLFKKILKYLHHCRGHTVHSHHHCIR - SEQ ID NO: 12) are fusion peptides containing CPP and cationic sequences which are designed as stimulus-response peptides and could release the cargo molecules (peptides, protein, RNA, DNA) into the cytoplasm.
  • KAibA(KH)9, K-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AibA)- AKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKH, and KAibA(D-R9), K-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AibA)-Arrrrrrrrr are synthetic peptides and containing both CPP and cationic biomolecule binding functions.
  • KAibA JP2019-69134 & US16/832749 was chemoenzymatically synthesized using the polymerization (ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2020, 6, 6, 3287-3298).
  • Transit peptides that have the ability to target cargo to organelles such as chloroplasts are known.
  • Software programs have been developed to predict chloroplast subcellular localization signals. The skilled person would recognize the physicochemical properties that constitute a chloroplast transit peptide length, charge, and hydrophobicity.
  • a chloroplast transit sequence could be added to the nucleic acid sequence to be transported into the plant. It may also be possible to identify CPPs with transit peptides properties. Such CPPs can be used to deliver nucleic acid to plastids in either isolated plant cells or in whole plants.
  • the compositions of the present invention may comprise a CPP, a nucleic acid and an organelle targeting peptide.
  • CPPs as effective plant macromolecular transporters shown in the present invention is important not only in monocot and dicot transgenic plant production methods, but also in plant functional genomics.
  • the CPPs can be combined with other transduction technologies, thus making them broad based platform technologies for the manipulation of plant traits of agronomic importance.
  • the application of CPPs to directly manipulate plant organelle genomes also facilitates organelle functional genomics.
  • Plants have stomata that regulate the movement of water inside the plant and out of the plant by transpiration. Each stomate is flanked by two guard cells, controlling the diameter of stoma by changing shape. Stomatai density of a leaf is under both genetic and environmental control. Stomata are generally open during the day and closed at night. Stomata are known to have a role in the uptake of solutions by a plant. Without limiting the invention, it is believed that the compositions described herein may be transported through the stomata of the plant into the plant cells. Hence, any physiological or molecular factors that influence stomata opening and closing have the potential to impact the uptake of the CPP complexes described herein.
  • the methods may be used under conditions wherein the stomata are likely to be open or in plants having large numbers of stomata.
  • the pH of the compositions can be adjusted to allow for more favorable uptake through the stomata.
  • the relative humidity or temperature may be adjusted such that stomata are more likely to be open.
  • the methods of the present invention can be used to directly incorporate nucleic acids into plant cells by spraying, it is also possible that the methods can be used in conjunction with other methods of transporting or delivering cargo into a plant cell.
  • techniques are known for the introduction of proteins for genome editing such as the CRISPR-Cas system. It may be possible to introduce proteins such as an endonuclease using such a technique while simultaneously using the compositions of the present invention to incorporate nucleic acids into plant cells.
  • a novel method for introducing one or more nucleic acids into a plant cell comprising: (i) providing a solution of one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a cell of a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter said plant cell.
  • the ratio of nucleic acid to Cell Penetrating Peptide ranges between 0.5 to 2.0.
  • the nucleic acids may include one or more of DNA, RNA, PNA and/or one or more nucleic acid analogues.
  • the nucleic acid-CPP complex may be dissolved in water and optionally a salt and/or buffer component can be added to this solution, but this solution is preferably devoid of any further additives, such as chelators, surfactants (nonionic surfactants or ionic), humectants, or osmolytes.
  • a novel method for introducing one or more nucleic acids into a plant cell comprising: (i) providing one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, the complex dissolved in water devoid of any further additives, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a cell of a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter said plant cell.
  • a novel method for introducing one or more nucleic acids into a plant cell comprising: (i) providing one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, the complex dissolved in a salt solution, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a cell of a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter said plant cell.
  • a novel method for introducing one or more nucleic acids into a plant cell comprising: (i) providing one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, the complex dissolved in a buffer solution, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a cell of a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter said plant cell.
  • a novel method for introducing one or more nucleic acids into a plant cell comprising: (i) providing one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, the complex dissolved in a buffered salt solution, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a cell of a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter said plant cell.
  • the spraying is applied directly to a plant tissue, plant organ, plant epidermis, or any other part of a plant.
  • the plant organ may be a leaf, stem, root, or reproductive organ.
  • the plant tissue can be any tissue, including meristematic tissue. Therefore, according to some aspects of the invention, said plant cell is part of a plant tissue, plant organ, plant epidermis, or any other part of a plant.
  • the Cell Penetrating Peptide can be any type of CPP.
  • the CPP is a cationic CPP or an amphiphilic CPP. More preferably, the cationic CPP is one of BP100 (SEQ ID NO: 7), R9 (SEQ ID NO: 8) or D-R9 (SEQ ID NO: 9), and the amphiphilic CPP is KH9 (SEQ ID NO: 10).
  • the Cell Penetrating Peptide is preferably selected from the group consisting of: BP100, KH9, R9, D-R9, BP100(KH)9, BP100CH7, KAibA(KH9) and KAibA(D-R9).
  • the CPP is complexed with one or more of DNA, RNA, or nucleic acid analogues. Standard techniques known to the skilled person can be used for creating a nucleic acid - CPP complex.
  • the nucleic acid - CPP complex may further comprise an organelle targeting sequence. Such nucleic acid can then be delivered into an organelle such as a chloroplast or mitochondrion.
  • the CPP may itself act as an organelle targeting peptide (see for example Cerrato et al., J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020,8, 10825-10836 or Thagun et al., Adv Sci (Weinh). 2019; 6(23): 1902064).
  • the nucleic acid can be coupled to an organelle targeting peptide (MacCulloch,T. et al., Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 1668-1682).
  • the present invention also provides a method of introducing a nucleic acid into a plant cell, said method comprising: a. providing a solution of one or more nucleic acids, complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, b. applying said solution to a plant, plant organ or plant tissue by spraying, and c.
  • the one or more nucleic acids are delivered into the mitochondrion, in another aspect the one or more nucleic acids are delivered into the chloroplast.
  • the one or more nucleic acids can be targeted to other subcellular compartments, such as cell membranes (Jin et al. Front. Chem., https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00824).
  • the methods of the present invention may be applied by spraying, nebulizing, etc.
  • Spraying can be done on any plant part, plant organ or plant tissue.
  • spraying is done on a plant leaf and in particular, spraying is done on the adaxial and/or abaxial side of a plant leaf.
  • the spraying is advantageously applied to the abaxial side of a leaf.
  • Such methods can be adapted for large scale application, for example, to crops in a greenhouse or in a field.
  • a novel method for applying one or more nucleic acids to a plant comprising: (i) providing a solution of one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter plant cells.
  • a method of applying one or more nucleic acids to a plant comprising: (a) complexing said one or more nucleic acids with one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides in water devoid of any further additives; (b) applying the solution containing the one or more nucleic acids complexed with the one or more CPPs to a plant by spraying or nebulizing; and (c) allowing the complex to enter plant cells.
  • a novel method for applying one or more nucleic acids to a plant comprising: (i) providing one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, the complex dissolved in a salt solution, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter plant cells.
  • a novel method for applying one or more nucleic acids to a plant comprising: (i) providing one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, the complex dissolved in a buffer solution, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter plant cells.
  • a novel method for applying one or more nucleic acids to a plant comprising: (i) providing one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides, the complex dissolved in a buffered salt solution, (ii) applying the solution of (i) to a plant by spraying, and (iii) allowing the one or more nucleic acids to enter plant cells.
  • the methods of the present invention can be applied to translocate any nucleic acid.
  • the nucleic acid or nucleic acid analogue is capable of modulating gene expression. Therefore, in another aspect, there is provided a method of modulating gene expression in a plant cell, said method comprising providing a solution according to the present invention, comprising one or more nucleic acids capable of modulating expression of a gene, complexed to one or more CPPs; applying said solution to a plant, plant organ or plant tissue by spraying; and allowing the one or more nucleic acids capable of modulating expression of a gene to enter said plant cell and modulate gene expression.
  • the present invention thus provides a method of modulating gene expression in a plant cell, said method comprising: a.
  • nucleic acids capable of modulating expression of a gene comprising one or more nucleic acids capable of modulating expression of a gene, complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides; b. applying the solution to a plant, plant organ or plant tissue by spraying; and c. allowing the one or more nucleic acids capable of modulating expression of a gene to enter said plant cell and to modulate gene expression.
  • the nucleic acids capable of modulating expression of a gene, complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides are dissolved in water, or in water supplemented with salt and/or buffer.
  • the methods of the invention can be carried out using spraying techniques such as dripping, nebulizing, atomizing, misting or any other form of application wherein the solution is applied without directly contacting the plant.
  • the methods of the invention can be carried out under conditions that are favorable to stomatai opening, or under conditions where stomata are open prior to the application of the solution.
  • the methods of the invention may encompass multiple applications, wherein the solution is allowed to enter the plant cells for a period of time, followed by consecutive application of additional solution by way of spraying.
  • the methods of the invention comprises application to a field crop for selectively controlling the growth of weeds wherein the solution of one or more nucleic acids complexed to one or more Cell Penetrating Peptides further comprises a herbicide or other pesticide.
  • the present invention also encompasses use of a solution comprising a Cell Penetrating Peptide complexed with one or more nucleic acids for the control of a physiological process in plants, including but not limited to flower induction, resistance to pests and sensitivity to growth regulators, wherein the solution is applied to the plant by spraying.
  • the methods of the invention can be applied for genome editing of plants using a CRISPR-Cas system, wherein the nucleic acid comprises a guide RNA.
  • the methods of the invention can be applied to a plant concurrently with another transfection method.
  • spraying refers in general to any technique that may be used to achieve roughly uniform distribution of a liquid compound or a dissolved compound, and/or that may be used to spread liquid in small drops or thin jets over an area. Spraying also includes application by nebulizing or by mist or aerosol.
  • “spraying” includes crop dusting (aerial), and may make use of for example hydraulic sprayers, mist blower, electrostatic sprayer, rotary disk sprayer, spray gun, trolley, thermal fogger, mechanical fogger (https://ag.umass.edu/greenhouse-floriculture/fact-sheets/sprayers-spray-application-techniques) hand-operated or motorized, blower sprayer (e.g. the sprayer mainly consists of high-pressure piston pump, which atomise the spray solution, axial or centrifugal fan to produce a stream of air). Any technique used in aeroponics or fogponics can advantageously be used.
  • the spraying or misting may be applied to the underside of a plant surface (e.g. the abaxial surface of a leaf) or to the adaxial surface of a leaf or to both sides simultaneously.
  • the speed of application can be adjusted as appropriate to ensure appropriate application, as can the angle of spray.
  • Precision spraying techniques may also be used (i.e. automated target detecting systems). Such techniques are particularly useful when the methods of the present invention are employed as a means of weed control.
  • Spraying or other means of applying can be carried out in a semi-automated or automated such as by a drone or any type of robot.
  • TAMRA refers to 5-Carboxytetramethylrhodamin, a widely used fluorophore for preparing bioconjugates and in the context of the present invention, TAMRA is conjugated with CPPs.
  • Alternative fluorophores useful for conjugation are known to the skilled person.
  • nucleic acids and “nucleotides” refer to naturally occurring or synthetic or artificial nucleic acid or nucleotides, including single- or double-stranded polymer of deoxyribonucleotide or ribonucleotide bases read from the 5'- to the 3'-end. It includes chromosomal DNA, self-replicating plasmids, infectious polymers of DNA or RNA and DNA or RNA that performs a primarily structural role.
  • nucleic acids and “nucleotides” comprise deoxyribonucleotides or ribonucleotides or any nucleotide analogue and polymers or hybrids thereof in either single- or double-stranded, sense or antisense form.
  • nucleic acid is DNA; the term “nucleic acid” can be non-coding or coding (such as genes or cDNA), can be short (oligonucleotides) or long, can be linear or circular, can be in B- DNA, A-DNA or Z-DNA conformation.
  • RNA in case the nucleic acid is RNA, the term covers any type of RNA, including but not limited to mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, dsRNA, ribozymes, circular RNA, and various types of regulatory RNAs like miRNA, IncRNA, enhancer RNA, RNA associated with the CRISPR-Cas system (crRNA, tracrRNA or sgRNA).
  • oligonucleotide refers to an oligomer or polymer of ribonucleic acid (RNA) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or mimetics thereof, as well as oligonucleotides having non-naturally- occurring portions which function similarly. Such modified or substituted oligonucleotides are often preferred over native forms because of desirable properties such as, for example, enhanced cellular uptake, enhanced affinity for nucleic acid target and increased stability in the presence of nucleases.
  • An oligonucleotide preferably includes two or more nucleomonomers covalently coupled to each other by linkages (e.g., phosphodiesters) or substitute linkages.
  • Nucleic acid analogues include nucleotides having modifications in the chemical structure of the base, sugar and/or phosphate, including, but not limited to, 5-position pyrimidine modifications, 8-position purine modifications, modifications at cytosine exocyclic amines, substitution of 5-bromo-uracil, and the like; and 2'-position sugar modifications, including but not limited to, sugar-modified ribonucleotides in which the 2'-OH is replaced by a group selected from H, OR, R, halo, SH, SR, NH2, NHR, NR2, or CN.
  • Short hairpin RNAs also can comprise non-natural elements such as nonnatural bases, e.g., ionosin and xanthine, non-natural sugars, e.g., 2'-methoxy ribose, or non-natural phosphodiester linkages, e.g., methylphosphonates, phosphorothioates and peptides.
  • nonnatural bases e.g., ionosin and xanthine
  • non-natural sugars e.g., 2'-methoxy ribose
  • non-natural phosphodiester linkages e.g., methylphosphonates, phosphorothioates and peptides.
  • the methods of the invention are advantageously applicable to any plant, in particular to any plant as defined herein.
  • Plants that are particularly useful in the methods of the invention include all plants which belong to the superfamily Viridiplantae, in particular monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants including fodder or forage legumes, ornamental plants, food crops, trees or shrubs.
  • the plant is a crop plant.
  • crop plants include but are not limited to chicory, carrot, cassava, trefoil, soybean, beet, sugar beet, sunflower, canola, alfalfa, rapeseed, linseed, cotton, tomato, potato, Stevia species such as but not limited to Stevia rebaudiana and tobacco.
  • the plant is a monocotyledonous plant.
  • monocotyledonous plants include sugarcane.
  • the plant is a cereal.
  • cereals include rice, maize, wheat, barley, millet, rye, triticale, sorghum, emmer, spelt, einkorn, teff, milo and oats.
  • the plants of the invention or used in the methods of the invention are selected from the group consisting of maize, wheat, rice, soybean, cotton, oilseed rape including canola, sugarcane, sugar beet and alfalfa.
  • the invention also extends to harvestable parts of a plant such as, but not limited to seeds, leaves, fruits, flowers, stems, setts, sugarcane gems, roots, rhizomes, tubers and bulbs, which harvestable parts which have been treated using a method according to the present invention, which harvestable parts have modified, preferably improved, characteristics compared to harvestable parts which have not been treated.
  • harvestable parts are roots such as taproots, rhizomes, fruits, stems, beets, tubers, bulbs, leaves, flowers and/or seeds.
  • plant as used herein encompasses whole plants, ancestors and progeny of the plants and plant parts, including seeds, shoots, stems, leaves, roots (including tubers), flowers, and tissues and organs, wherein each of the aforementioned comprise the gene/nucleic acid of interest.
  • plant also encompasses plant cells, callus tissue, embryos, meristematic regions, gametophytes, sporophytes, pollen and microspores, or propagules.
  • Propagation material or “propagule” is any kind of organ, tissue, or cell of a plant capable of developing into a complete plant.
  • Propagation material can be based on vegetative reproduction (also known as vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication, or vegetative cloning) or sexual reproduction. Propagation material can therefore be seeds or parts of the nonreproductive organs, like stem or leave.
  • A Sprayable peptide-based DNA delivery to Arabidopsis thaliana mediated by cell-penetrating peptide (CPP; BP100(KH)9).
  • the BP100(KH)9/pBI221 complexes were formed in aqueous solution and applied on plant leaves using spray atomizer. The activity of GUS reporter was assayed after 24 hours post spraying.
  • B GUS activity in plant leaves transfected with CPP/pDNA complexes after spraying for 24 hours. The distribution of GUS activity in at least 20 sprayed leaves are shown as a box plot. Black bars represent median of GUS activity. Dots represent each data point.
  • (B) Fluorescent microscopic observation of TAMRA-CPPs in Arabidopsis leaf epidermal cells after spraying. Scale bars 50 pm.
  • (B) Distributions of fluorescent intensities in soybean leaves after spraying with TAMRA-CPPs solution and washing. The distribution of fluorescent intensity data was shown as box plot with median (black bar). Dots represent each data point in the distribution (n 9).
  • (C) Fluorescent intensities of chemoenzymatically-synthesized TAMRA-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib)-containing CPPs in soybean (cultivar Enrei) leaves after spraying (n 12). The data was shown as box plot.
  • cloning procedures carried out for the purposes of the present invention including restriction digest, agarose gel electrophoresis, purification of nucleic acids, ligation of nucleic acids, transformation, selection and cultivation of bacterial cells were performed as described (1). Sequence analyses of recombinant DNA were performed with a laser fluorescence DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) using the Sanger technology (2). Unless described otherwise, chemicals and reagents were obtained from Sigma Aldrich (Sigma Aldrich, St. Louis, USA), from Promega (Madison, Wl, USA) or Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA, USA).
  • Sequences (full length cDNA, ESTs or genomic) related to the nucleic acid sequence used in the methods of the present invention were identified amongst those maintained in the Entrez Nucleotides database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and other databases using database sequence search tools, such as the Basic Local Alignment Tool (BLAST) (3, 4).
  • the program is used to find regions of local similarity between sequences by comparing nucleic acid or polypeptide sequences to sequence databases and by calculating the statistical significance of matches.
  • the polypeptide encoded by the nucleic acid used in the present invention was used for the TBLASTN algorithm, with default settings and the filter to ignore low complexity sequences set off.
  • the output of the analysis was viewed by pairwise comparison, and ranked according to the probability score (E-value), where the score reflects the probability that a particular alignment occurs by chance (the lower the E-value, the more significant the hit).
  • E-value the probability score
  • comparisons were also scored by percentage identity.
  • Percentage identity refers to the number of identical nucleotides (or amino acids) between the two compared nucleic acid (or polypeptide) sequences over a particular length.
  • the default parameters may be adjusted to modify the stringency of the search. For example, the E-value may be increased to show less stringent matches. This way, short nearly exact matches may be identified.
  • Escherichia coli was used as propagation microorganism for all the plasmids used in our experiments, as well as for further propagation, maintenance of the modified targets, and heteroexpression of target protein. E. coli was grown according standard microbiological practices (5).
  • CPPs Cell-penetrating peptides
  • protein transduction domains are short peptides that facilitate the transport of cargo molecules through membranes to gain access to the cells.
  • CPPs are coupled to cargo molecules through covalent conjugation, forming CPP-cargo complexes.
  • DNA, RNA, nanomaterials and proteins such as antibodies were reported as cargo molecules.
  • Most studies of the complex of CPPs and protein have contributed to the applications in mammalian cells, whereas only very limited studies have focused on plant cells. This could be due to the complicated cell wall structure of plant shows intransigence on internalization such big cargo molecules, and the slight negatively net charge of the cellulose could reduce interaction between the CPP and lipid bilayer by the physical and the chemical manners.
  • the plant cells are mainly containing cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin. These biochemical compositions are changing during the plant growth, indicating that optimization of various conditions to achieve delivery of cargo molecule into plant cells is needed.
  • BP100 (KKLFKKILKYL - SEQ ID NO: 7) is an amphiphilic peptide and has CPP function.
  • KH9 KHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKH - SEQ. ID NO: 10
  • R9 RRRRRRRRR SEQ ID NO: 8
  • D-R9 rrrrrrrrr, D-form of R9 - SEQ ID NO: 9 are peptides containing both CPP and cationic biomolecule binding functions.
  • BP100(KH)9 (KKLFKKILKYLKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKH - SEQ ID NO: 11) and BP100CH7 (KKLFKKILKYLHHCRGHTVHSHHHCIR - SEQ ID NO: 12) are fusion peptides containing CPP and cationic sequences which are designed as stimulus-response peptides and could release the cargo molecules (peptides, protein, RNA, DNA) into the cytoplasm.
  • KAibA(KH)9, K-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AibA)- AKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKH, and KAibA(D-R9), K-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AibA)-Arrrrrrrrr are synthetic peptides and containing both CPP and cationic biomolecule binding functions.
  • KAibA US16/832749
  • TAMRA-CPPs are CPPs that labeled by fluorescent molecule 5- carboxytetramethylrhodamine (TAMRA) at the C-terminal end and were used for optimization of various conditions.
  • TAMRA fluorescent molecule 5- carboxytetramethylrhodamine
  • Boc-CPPs were deprotected using tri-fluoroacetic acid (TFA).
  • TAMRA tri-fluoroacetic acid
  • DMSO dimethyl sulfoxide
  • Plasmid DNA that contains expression cassette of reporter gene such as GUS (SEQ ID NO: 1), GFP (SEQ ID NO: 2), DsRed (SEQ ID NO: 3), and Renilla luciferase (Rluc - SEQ ID NO: 4) was used to detect successful delivery into plant cells.
  • Plasmid DNA that contains expression cassette of herbicide tolerant gene such as PPO (SEQ ID NO: 6)or ALS (SEQ ID NO: 5) was used for further application.
  • Plasmid DNA with concentration at 1.0 mg/mL was prepared by Maxi prep (QIAGEN) according to the manufacture protocol.
  • CPP-DNA solution plasmid DNA (1.0 mg/mL) was mixed with CPP (1.0 mg/mL) at various N/P ratios.
  • CPP 1.0 mg/mL
  • BP100(KH)9-DNA complex the complex was prepared in N/P ratio at 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0.
  • the complex solutions were pipetted gently and incubated at RT for 30 min in the dark. This solution was adjusted to final volume of 5 mL by adding autoclaved Milli-q water, and then continuing incubation under the same condition for another 30 min. Each solution was repeatedly pipetted and used for spraying application.
  • Seeds of tomato were germinated on wet filter paper, and then moved to pots with planting medium containing a mixture of soil. Plants were grown and incubated under for 16 hours light at 28°C/8 hours dark at 20°C in a plant incubator. Leaves from 2-month-old plants were used for experiments.
  • BP100(KH)9/pBI221-GUS complex solution was sprayed on leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype col-0 ( Figure 1A).
  • Arabidopsis plants sprayed with BP100(KH)9/pBI221-GUS complex were kept at standard culture conditions for 24 hours.
  • Leaves of Arabidopsis sprayed with BP100(KH)9/pBI221-GUS complexes showed significantly higher GUS activity than that in the leaves sprayed with the solution containing pBI221-GUS plasmid DNA (pDNA) only ( Figure IB and C).
  • TAMRA-BP100 TAMRA-KH9, TAMRA-R9, and TAMRA-D-R9 (these CPPs were labelled with TAMRA fluorophore) were used.
  • Each TAMRA-CPP was adjusted as concentration at 1 mg/L in water.
  • One millilitre of TAMRA-CPP solution was applied at a leaf surface.
  • Leaf surface was washed three times with water after 30, 90 and 150 min post spraying, and the intensity of fluorescence was measured by CLSM imaging analysis (Figure 2A). The fluorescent intensity increased over the time in epidermal cells ( Figure 2B and C).
  • BP100 and D-R9 showed higher cell penetrating efficiency compared with KH9 and R9 ( Figure 2B and C).
  • the fluorescent intensities of TAMRA-BP100 and TAMRA-D-R9 at 150 min showed 5-fold higher than the intensity at 30 min ( Figure 2B and C).
  • the intensity of fluorescence in mesophyll cell layer On mesophyll cells, D-R9 showed the highest penetrating efficiency ( Figure 2D and E).
  • Soybean leaves are different in both architecture and leaf chemical components.
  • the chemoenzymatically-synthesized poly-alpha-aminoisobytyric acid (Aib)-contained CPPs showed remarkable activity to translocate across the tough plant cell boundaries.
  • KAibA, KAibK, and KAibG were synthesized and labelled with TAMRA as described in Example 1.
  • the solutions containing 1 mg/mL of these artificial TAMRA-CPPs were sprayed to fully expanded leaves of 5-weeks old soybean cultivar Enrei and the fluorescence imaging was carried out at 30 min, 90 min, and 150 min after spraying.
  • Figure 3C shows the fluorescent intensity of artificial TAMRA-CPPs in soybean leaves.
  • TAMRA-KAibA showed the strongest fluorescence compared to KAibK and KAibG ( Figure 3C and D). These fluorescent intensities in TAMRA-KAibA-sprayed leaf epidermal cells were progressively increased as increasing the incubation time. However, the average fluorescent intensity in TAMRA- KAibA-treated soybean leaves was lower than that previously achieved by TAMRA-D-R9 ( Figure 3B and C). Transfection of pBI221-GUS to soybean leaves mediated by CPP/pDNA cargos was carried out using the same protocol as in Arabidopsis ( Figure 4A). GUS histochemical staining and enzymatic assay in transfected leaves were performed after 24 hours post spraying.
  • GUS activity assay result suggested that CPP/pDNA complex-based transfection protocol developed for Arabidopsis is able to transform soybean leaf cells (Figure 4B).
  • GUS activity in soybean leaves sprayed with BP100(KH)9/pBI221-GUS complex was significantly higher than that in the leaves sprayed with peptide and pDNA only ( Figure 4B).
  • GUS staining indicated that expression of GUS is epidermal cell-specific (Figure 4C), suggesting lower penetration ability of this CPP/pDNA complex in soybean leaf cell than in the Arabidopsis cells.
  • PPO gene was delivered into 5 weeks old soybean leaves of cultivar Peking. Plasmid DNA which contains PPO expression cassette was mixed with D-R9 and incubated for 30 min.
  • the solution was sprayed on the leaf surface. Twenty-four hours after the spray, the leaf surface was washed with water three times. Then leaf tissue was immediately frozen. RT-PCR and western blot analysis were performed to examine the PPO gene expression and PPO protein accumulation. As a control, the empty vector was sprayed at the same time. Three biological replications, three independent experiments were done.
  • Example 6 Targeted gene delivery into Arabidopsis chloroplast by spraying solution containing chloroplast-targeting peptide, and CPP BP100
  • chloroplast as a target organelle. Approximately 100 chloroplasts exist per epidermal cell in Arabidopsis leaf. Chloroplast-targeting peptide, (KH)9OEP34; KHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHMFAFQYLLVM was used for chloroplast-specific gene delivery into Arabidopsis leaf.
  • CTP chloroplast-targeting peptide
  • RNAi Transient RNA interference
  • shRNA short- interference RNA
  • CPPs demonstrate their function in fortifying the interacting RNA molecules against RNA degradation process.
  • Free siRNA molecules applied to plant cells using high-pressure spraying consequentially suppressed the expression of target mRNA molecules (7).
  • siGFPSl To test gene silencing function of siGFPSl, the synthetic double-stranded siRNA molecules were formed complexes with KH9-BP100 and syringe-infiltrated to transgenic Arabidopsis leaves overexpressing yellow-fluorescent protein (YFP) (Figure 6a). At day-3 post infiltration, we observed significant reductions of YFP fluorescence and protein accumulation in leaves infiltrated with siGFPSl/KH9-BP100 complexes.
  • YFP yellow-fluorescent protein
  • RNAs can be delivered with avoiding the degradation into Arabidopsis leaf with CPP spray method and were able to play a role in the local gene expression suppression.
  • the spray method is applicable in a large-scale field application. Delivering and expressing herbicide tolerant gene such as ALS, and PPO or insect resistant genes on leaf surface in economically important crops is a great example.
  • active enzyme can be available in the cells within a shorter period by protein delivery than nucleic acids delivery, therefore, protein delivery is suitable especially for insect treatment application which requires quick treatment. Proteins are mixed with protease inhibitors to minimize the protein degradation, and then mixed with CPP.
  • the herbicide chemical for corresponding enzymes is sprayed in the field using the sprayer.
  • the soybean plant transiently gains the tolerance to the herbicide and then sequential herbicide spraying successfully kills only weeds around soybean.
  • This method can be automated. Weeds can be detected and captured by drone camera, and weed intensity can be analyzed by image analysis program, and semi-automatic application of the CPP-biomolecule solution, followed by spraying of herbicide solution can reduce weed presence.

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L'invention concerne un complexe comprenant un peptide de pénétration cellulaire et un ou plusieurs acides nucléiques qui peuvent être appliqués à une plante par pulvérisation et qui peuvent déclencher un résultat physiologique. De ce fait, le complexe dudit un ou desdits plusieurs acides nucléiques avec un peptide de pénétration cellulaire peut être dissous dans de l'eau sans la présence de constituants supplémentaires dans la solution.
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